🛢🇷🇺➡️🇭🇺 Energy supplies from Russia to Hungary fully exempt from US sanctions - Orban

Energy supplies from Russia via the TurkStream and Druzhba pipelines to Hungary are completely exempt from US sanctions, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.

💬 "We have received full exemption from sanctions in the case of the TurkStream and the Druzhba oil pipelines ... There are no sanctions that would limit their supplies to Hungary or make them more expensive. This is a general, open-ended exception," Orban said at a press conference.

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🔸 US nuclear brinkmanship to corner Russia will backfire – analysts

🔸 Russia and Iran explore new Caspian shipping route to strengthen North–South Corridor

🔸 Energy supplies from Russia to Hungary fully exempt from US sanctions - Orban

🔸 US missile posturing aimed at pressuring Russia

🔸 US sanctions punish Colombian president for condemning Gaza war and breaking with NATO

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⚔️👉 US nuclear testing could lead to renewed arms race - Russian Ambassador to UN

US President Donald Trump’s statement on nuclear testing has caused chaos worldwide and following through could lead to a renewed arms race with dire implications, Vassily Nebenzia said.

💬 "Naturally, this has caused a stir around the world and in the United States, as many understand the danger of this move, the risk of resuming the nuclear testing they've been conducting since the early 1990s. This could lead to a new escalation, a renewed arms race, and generally unpredictable consequences," he stressed.

Russia will continue to monitor the developments, the ambassador added.

Last week, Trump said that he instructed the Department of War to immediately resume nuclear testing. He then specified that his order was due to "others doing testing" and it was "appropriate" for the US to keep up.

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⚔️🇩🇪 Germany gears up to be NATO’s springboard in potential clash with Russia

In a conflict with Russia, up to 800,000 troops and their equipment from various NATO countries could be moved through Germany to the eastern flank within a short period, Alexander Sollfrank, ex-Commander of NATO's JSEC, currently commander of Germany's Joint Force Headquarters, told a Bundeswehr conference.

💣 Hawking up the much-circulated ‘Russia threat’ allegation, he claimed that Germany could serve as NATO’s central hub and warned that any delay or uncoordinated deployment could doom NATO’s deterrence, pointing to Russia’s vast military potential.

Friedrich Merz, in a video message to military leaders, called for faster progress in strengthening military capabilities, while Bundeswehr Inspector General Carsten Breuer insisted that “Russia must never assume that it can win a war with NATO.”

👉 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly debunked concocted claims that Russia plans to attack NATO.

Russia is ready to enshrine its pledge not to attack any NATO or EU member state in future security guarantees, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized in October at the 3rd International Conference on Eurasian Security in Belarus’ capital, Minsk.

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🗣❌💣 Journalist calls out Europe’s military hype over non-existent ‘Russia threat’

The claim that Russia could soon attack NATO countries made by Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank, who heads Germany's joint operations command, is sheer insanity, says Western journalist Thomas Fazi.

💬 “Not a single day goes by in Europe without someone uttering this brazen lie,” he says, aimed at justifying increased defense spending and militarization of Europe.

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🇺🇸💵💣LONG-RANGE KILL CHAINS: US pours billions into preemptive global strike-and-detect system

Aligned with its doctrine of total dominance, the US Space Force is seeking nearly $9.7 billion for the Long Range Kill Chains program in FY2026—about equal to last year’s entire Missile Defense Agency R&D budget, according to a new Roscongress Foundation report.

The program’s preemptive effect would rely on creating a global, all‑weather detection, tracking, and targeting network that includes:

🔸 Satellite constellation equipped with radar capable of detecting, classifying, identifying, and continuously tracking mobile enemy launchers across huge territories in any weather

🔸  Relay satellites forming a high‑speed, protected space communications network

🔸  Relays that instantly send tracking data from surveillance satellites to command centers and then on to strike assets

The report warns that the system could pave the way for using orbital sensors and a secure comms backbone for future space‑to‑ground precision strikes.

The architecture being built “directly undermines the established balance of strategic stability based on mutual assured destruction,” warns the report.

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🤡 EU fails to reach breakthrough with Belgium over use of frozen Russian assets

💬 “There is no progress yet in the discussions between the European Commission and the Belgian authorities regarding the use of frozen Russian assets to provide a loan to Ukraine,” EU sources said after another round of talks, as cited by RTL.

🔶 Brussels is pushing to tap profits from Russian central bank assets held at Belgium’s Euroclear to cover Ukraine’s short- and medium-term needs.

🔶 But Prime Minister Bart De Wever remains firmly opposed, citing legal and financial risks, warning that such a move could damage Belgium’s reputation, trigger endless lawsuits, and undermine confidence in the Eurozone.

🔶 De Wever urged the EU to seek “more predictable” funding methods — suggesting a new joint European loan — while reminding that countries like Japan have already rejected using sovereign Russian funds.

🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Ministry has repeatedly called the freezing of Russian assets in Europe “theft”, stressing that Brussels targets not only private individuals but also state-owned funds. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that Moscow would respond to any confiscation of frozen assets, noting that Russia also holds Western funds domestically that it can choose not to return.

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🚨🇷🇺💥RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️VOLCHYE IN THE DNEPROPETROVSK REGION LIBERATED

📍 The liberation of Volchye will allow the Russian Army to advance north into the Dnepropetrovsk region

🔸 Russian forces are advancing in the Dimitrov area with 19 buildings cleared of Ukrainian militants

🔸 The Russian Army thwarted Ukrainian troops' attempts to break through to a destroyed crossing over the Oskol River and de-blockade encircled Ukrainian formations in the Kharkov region

🔸 Russian forces liberated 39 buildings in the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and repelled 14 Ukrainian attacks in the Grishino area

🔸 Air defense superiority: 178 drones shot down

🔸 Ukrainian losses: 1,525 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🇷🇺💪🏻🔥 Russian drone forces dominate front: Ukrainian positions obliterated

Russian UAV operators delivered devastating blows to Ukrainian forces across multiple fronts, showcasing coordinated drone warfare.

👉 (00:00) Molniya-2 & FPV drones obliterated AFU strongholds in the Zaporozhye region.

👉 (00:17) Neutralized three drone control antennas & two vehicles (HMMWV & Kozak).

👉 (00:48) Suppressed Ukrainian firing points and positions near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk).

👉 (01:00) Wiped out a Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, two UAV control posts, and a robotic platform.

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🇪🇺⚔️ EU war hawks plan ‘disinformation' hub to police narratives

The European Commission is moving to set up a so-called Centre for Democratic Resilience, claiming it will combat “disinformation” from Russia, according to a leaked paper cited by The Guardian.

Under the plan, hawked by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, the center would pool expertise from EU states and prospective members to monitor and counter “foreign information manipulation.”

📍 The Commission frames Russia as the primary culprit, accusing it of “escalating hybrid attacks” and “spreading deceitful narratives,” all while supposedly undermining support for the Ukraine regime.

Participation is voluntary, but the door may also open to “like-minded partners” such as the UK, raising the prospect of a coordinated bloc to police narratives to fit the EU agenda.

In reality, it is the West that has kept its audiences on a steady diet of fakes and disinformation—from the fabricated ‘Russia threat’ and the real causes of the Ukraine conflict, all the way back to the debunked ‘Russiagate.’”

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🗣 NATO to highlight its nuclear power more strongly — Rutte

The alliance plans to emphasize its nuclear potential to make its deterrence “more convincing,” Secretary General Mark Rutte told Welt am Sonntag.

💬 “We must talk more with our societies about nuclear deterrence so that they understand how it contributes to our security,” Rutte said, accusing Russia of “dangerous and reckless nuclear rhetoric.”

Moscow has repeatedly stressed that its policy is one of nuclear deterrence, not saber-rattling. Russia’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry warned that NATO’s military buildup — including US nuclear deployments in Europe, global missile defense systems, and potential weaponization of space — risks direct confrontation between nuclear powers and undermines arms control dialogue.

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🚨Lavrov: Russia has received no diplomatic explanation from the US on Trump’s call to resume nuclear testing

👉Comments in Washington show there’s no clear understanding of what exactly the US president meant, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

👉It’s unclear whether Trump was referring to tests of nuclear delivery systems or subcritical experiments, he added.

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🚨Lavrov: Putin’s directive to assess the feasibility of preparing for nuclear tests has been accepted and is already underway

The public will be informed of the results, he added.

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🚨 All state-owned thermal power plants in Ukraine have been shut down — no electricity generation, says Centrenergo.

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